Quotes about Escape

An interesting fact about the Garden of Gethsemane is that it sits at the base of a known escape route from the city over the Mount of Olives toward the Judean desert. This is the route David took when running from his son Absalom. Jesus would have known this. But instead of running, He turned to His Father and said nine hell-shattering, demon-shaking, Devil-killing words: "Yet not what I will, but what you will" (Mark 14:36).

we are to escape the natural bitterness of the human heart, we have to go through a long process as well . . . the process of being cured.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside.

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

The point is very clear: if you are not watching for His coming, you will not be counted "worthy to escape all the things that will come to pass" during the Great Tribulation. If you're not watching for Him, He's not coming for you!

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

Yet, I doubt he would have chosen such a risky life if he hadn't been fleeing an orderly one.

It is both relaxing and invigorating to ... set aside the worries of life, [and] seek the company of a friendly book...

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn't figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

Escape for your life! Do not look behind you!